How to Restore iPad from iCloud Backup

WRITTEN BY Tina ON June 1, 2015

When you buy an iPad, it is expected to bring you some new and fancy life experience with its fantastic features. And all you feel is nothing but satisfaction. But that all depends on the condition that nothing goes wrong when using your iPad. However, it is impossible to have an idea like that. The real fact is that, one day after factory resetting your iPad, all content on iPad are gone then you can do nothing but scratching your head and wondering where the data have gone…At this moment, iPad Data Recovery comes in handy when you want to restore your iPad with a third party tool.

iPad Data Recovery is a tool that you cannot miss when restoring iPad from iCloud backups. It can help you retrieve voice memos, contacts, app history, or whatever data you would like to recover. By following the tutorial step by step, you can efficiently and safely restore iPad data from iCloud. But remember not to sync your iPad to iCloud if all your iPad data are gone after some terrible situations like iPad stuck in recovery mode.

How to Restore iPad from iCloud Backup

Notes: Before you continue to the following steps, you have to make sure that you have synced your iPad to iCloud before. You can only restore iPad from iCloud backups provided you have iCloud backup files.

Step 1. Enter “Recover from iCloud Backup File” recovery mode

Download iPad Data Recovery on your computer, after that install and run the program. Then you will enter an interface below. Choose the third recovery mode “Recover from iCloud Backup Files”. Then the program will require you to enter iCloud account with Apple ID and password.

Step 2: Select and download iCloud backup files from the list

After you enter iCloud account, all backup files will be displayed automatically on the computer which include the latest and the out-of-data backup files. Then you can choose one backup file and click on “Download”. The downloading process is going to be 3-5 minutes so you are supposed to wait until the process is completed.

Step 3: Step 3: Preview and restore iPad from iCloud backup files

When the program have downloaded the backups, it will start to scan the files by itself. Later, you will see an interface in which you can preview photos, videos, safari history etc. All data will be listed in certain categories. When you finally choose what to recover, you can click on “Recover” button and then they will be saved on the computer.

This is all about how to restore iPad from iCloud backup files with the help of iPad Data Recovery. Of course, this software can do more than that. Let’s say if your iPad mini or iPad Air is broken and you have not synced it to iCloud before, is there no way to recover the lost data? On the contrary, even if you don’t have iCloud backups available, this software supports you to retrieve photos, videos, notes and other data via iTunes backup files or from iPad directly.